A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

For decades, scientists have tried to build electronics that behave like the brain. The idea is called neuromorphic computing in which chips are designed to copy the way our brain’s neurons fire and ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

Neurons in the brain communicate with each other through synapses—connection points that allow the passage of electrical and chemical signals. In non-neuronal cells, direct cell-to-cell connections ...

Since Madeline Lancaster first created brain organoids back in 2013, they have become widely used for brain research around the world. But what exactly are they? Are they effectively miniature brains ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.